The Mont Blanc massif, surrounded by borders with France, Italy and Switzerland, contains eleven major independent summits, each over 4,000 metres. The Mont Blanc summit itself stands at 4,808 metres, and is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe.
The definition of a mountain in the US is a steep natural elevation above 300 m (1,000 ft), whereas in the UK the stipulation is above 600 m (2,000 ft).
This is a blog by an obsessive armchair mountaineer who occasionally wanders outside in search of steep and high places. Everyone has their own summit objectives, high or low, and the desire to reach the top is sometimes all-consuming. For